Crossword-Solution: FEAR 4 letters, 467 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Fear n. A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
Fear n. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of
evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety;
solicitude; alarm; dread.
Fear n. Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's
wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
Fear n. Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
Fear n. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or
alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
Fear n. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to
consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
Fear n. To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the
displeasure of.
Fear n. To be anxious or solicitous for.
Fear n. To suspect; to doubt.
Fear n. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of
by fear.
Fear v. i. To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel
anxiety on account of some expected evil.

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Word Anagrams
FEAR anagram AFER, ARFE, FARE, FERA, FRAE, FREA, RAFE

We have 467 clues for the answer “FEAR”

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"... is ___ itself": FDR 1 answer
"... when one's mind is made up, this diminishes ___" (Rosa Parks) 1 answer
"An instructor of great sagacity": Emerson 1 answer
"Cape __" ('91 De Niro film) 1 answer
"Cape __" (De Niro movie) 1 answer
"Cape ___" (Nolte/De Niro film) 1 answer
"Cape ___," 1991 film 1 answer
"Have no ___ of perfection - you'll never reach it": Dalí 1 answer
"I'm so scared!" emotion 1 answer
"In time we hate that which we often __": Shakespeare 1 answer
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on ___" (Camus) 1 answer
"Ode to ___": Collins 1 answer
"Proof of a degenerate mind," according to Virgil 1 answer
"That little darkroom where negatives are developed," per Michael Pritchard 1 answer
"The foundation of most governments": John Adams 1 answer
"The foundation of most governments," according to John Adams 1 answer
"The foundation of most governments," per John Adams 1 answer
"The mind-killer," in "Dune" 1 answer
"The mind-killer," in Frank Herbert's "Dune" 1 answer
"The mother of morality": Nietzsche 1 answer
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind," per H. P. Lovecraft 1 answer
"The only thing we have to ___ is ..." 1 answer
"The only thing we have to ___ is ___ itself" 1 answer
"The path to the dark side," per Yoda 1 answer
"Then live, Macduff. What need I __ of thee?": Macbeth 1 answer
"To ___ the worst oft cures the worse": Shakespeare 1 answer
"Yet do I ___ thy nature": Lady Macbeth 1 answer
"__ the Turtle": University of Maryland catchphrase 1 answer
"___ Factor" (NBC game show) 1 answer
"___ Factor" (TV show) 1 answer
"___ and Loathing in Las Vegas" 1 answer
"___ is not a lasting teacher of duty": Cicero 1 answer
"___ is the foundation of most governments" (John Adams) 1 answer
"___ leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering": Yoda 1 answer
"___ makes strangers of people who would be friends": Shirley MacLaine 1 answer
"___ of Flying": Jong 1 answer
ALARM, state of 1 answer
Adrenaline releaser 1 answer
Adrenaline trigger 1 answer
Adrenaline-release trigger 1 answer
Agoraphobia, e.g. 1 answer
Ailurophobia, e.g. 1 answer
Analysis discussion 1 answer
Apprehensive emotion 1 answer
Arachnophobia, for one 1 answer
Awe ingredient 1 answer
Bad thing to live in 1 answer
Be alarmed by 1 answer
Be frightened 1 answer
Be more than concerned about 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with FEAR (5)

Yet a nameless fear clutched at her heart and made her cry, “Oh, how I wish that I wasn’t going to a party to-night!” Even Michael, already half asleep, knew that she was perturbed, and he asked, “Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?” “Nothing, precious,” she said; “they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.” She went from bed to bed singing enchantments over them, and little Michael flung his arms round her.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ’d Thir dread Commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear’d Less then Arch Angel ruind, and th’ excess Of Glory obscur’d: As when the Sun new ris’n Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: “Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?” The Wolves and the Sheep “WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Lee, the old woman hid in the haymow “for fear Mis’ Bergson would catch her barefoot.” III One Sunday afternoon in July, six months after John Bergson’s death, Carl was sitting in the doorway of the Linstrum kitchen, dreaming over an illustrated paper, when he heard the rattle of a wagon along the hill road.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
She could not watch this time, but, leaning over the old bureau at which she had written the letter, closed her eyes, as if to keep out both hope and fear.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with FEAR (3)

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of …
E.E. Cummings
Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet. To make all your friends feelthat there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the pastand pre…
Christian D. Larson Your Forces and How to Use Them
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 438 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).